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MARRIAGE, 1: Williams presents Stella and Stanley's marriage as being…

- - - - 'Steve bounds after her with goat-like screeches and chases her around the corner'
  - - - does not see marriage as an equal partnership and prefers total control
        
        "In the state of Louisiana we have the Napoleonic Code"
        
        "and vice versa": false
        
        "Stella has embraced him with both arms, fiercely, ... he grins through the curtains at Blanche"
        
        Stanley views his marriage to Stella as a victory over Blanche
  - - - both economically and psychologically dependent on him
      - trapped within the cultural pragmatics of the Old South and its traditionalist views
- - - - her continual rationalisation of his behaviour, and need to convince herself that his abuse was atoned for
- - - - "he's not going to jump in a tank with a school of sharks now!" (Stella)